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For /Ac Christian Judex.
Rev- James MaikiiiglU. 1). D.
Minister of the Pnsbyterian church of
Scotland.
The name of die above individual is L
mdrai to the literary religious public in
America as null as in England, Scotland,
am! Ireland. To many ol die readers of
ine Christian Index it may, nevertheless,
he •interestin'; and piolitablc, to peruse a
short .sketch of Ins I ill* and u tilings, as fur- j
nished piiitcipally f'rinii Ii- most cm client !
hook styled, .Yew ‘Frans/idiim of Ihe j
. i/Mutu/ical F/nstles, with a Commentary
and Ao/o,” Ac. (I’ltila. E l. 1835 )
l)r. Markltiehl was bom on the 17th
day ol Kept. 1721, at Irvine, a sea-port j
town on tlte frith of Clyde in Scotland.— J
In his literary i ourse, be graduated at the 1
University ol Glasgow, alter whieti, be
out to key den in Holland, to prosecute I
the study ol Theology. Oil hi- return i
Itoin Leyden to his name town, be wa>
licensed by the I‘nsbyury ol In me to
preach. In this rapacity lie sm>u distin
guished llimself as a se.lionu and divine in
me I'rcsnyier.au elinieh of Meollaud.—
i’lie University ol 11 Imhurgii <.outcried on
him the degree ol Doeloi Divinity. lie
was eleeteil Moderaior oi the General As
sembly ol the cluurli ol Scotland, in 17nfl; i
and ill 1777. he was eiertid one ol die
ministers ol Edinburgh. Heir he <*• > llll u- ;
lied in the discharge oi his mmisiei tal dunes
mini his death, wlneli occurred in the TO-n ;
year ol his age, on the morning o| die 13ilt
day of January , I Slid,
His biographer says: ‘'ll may he oh
sen ed, in general, that his reputation loi ]
[sound eiiuiasui, extensive knowledge, ami j
clear clueid.iiion ot die sained writings, is
lapidly mere.ising among elnisii.ins ot etc- j
IV denomination ; anil he must beackitowl
d to have been one o| the most intelligent, :
jmlictotis, and eatidid expositors el the j
scriptures, that ever appeared.” lie is
eharaetet Ized us, “a v ci.eiuble lather who 1
iauked among die iiio i eminent divines
tlial the cluucli ol Scotland Inis procured.”
••’l'liu eomilienlary on die Aposiulicul Epis- j
lies, was ilie lesnUofihe unremitting labor
of almost thirty years.” Read t young j
ministering brother—just notice what loi* ;
I-i\vs.—■ • 7'/i e uul/lor while (-put//using It, ,
U'tis set .tool less limn eleven hoars every
dm/, employed in study : and before il
came to the /n ess. Ihe whole mnnuscript I
ha l been written no less than free lions i
with his oil'll hand.” .See Ins lilt- pi lixed j
to his emiimeniary .
The reader must led linn Dr. Macknighl
uas ail exliaordinaiy man. I know ot no
volume ol lhe kind equal In kis cofiillil'Ulu
ry on tlie Epistles. I could wish every
minister in America had a copy of it. lie
was a I’iesby leriaii, it is tine; but lie was
learned, able and bo.,esl, in expounding
tlie word of God.
When die controversy on Baptism is got
ten up, our I’lesliy tertan brethren in die |
ministry, many of them, will mil the pen- j
pie that Baptist ministers do ‘ not have!
enough of scholarship, or character. <>r j
something else, to entitle them to their no- ,
nee in an urgnm lit. lloiv often have we,
as a deoniiiiiiation, been spoken of as ‘*a
niultiiude. ol most illiterate beings.” Our
expositions are weak —we know nothing
of Greelv—nothing of Glntrch History
nothing ot Biblical Littsraluie, Ah:. Aic.—
Now this way of doing tt|> an argument |
will answer the purpose ivilli a certain or- j
der ol intellect; but the iu'elligimt. intlc
pt lulent thinker, will mil he satisfied in dim j
short order. But what shall we do when
these little e,lilies throw out these little
taunts at us little preachers ? IShall we
return instill for insult, and ridicule for rid
icttle ? O never, never—il is the work ol
little heads and bad hearts. What then?
Why, reader, we can probably do no lift
ter than to ask them to read their own able,
learned and honest Dr. .Macknighl. O,
this is unmerciful—’lis bieaking iheirown
heads with their own sticks. Well, ue
can’t help it; they must not pul such slicks
into our hands and then provoke us to use
them.
Reader, just as soon as you have five
dollars to spare, purchase Dr. Mac
knight's book on the Apostolical Epistles,
and then turn to the follow ing places and
6ee whether I quote from it garldiitglv, 1
shall turn to every place where die Apos
tles mention tlie subject ol baptism, begin
ning al
Romans (j: 3, I. 5.
V. 3. ‘‘Our baptism teaches us that we
have died by sin. For are ye igiiuraul,
dm: so many of us as have by baptism be
come Christ s disciples, hare been baptiz
ed into the likeness of his death,” (ver, 5 ;)
have been buried mu'ei the water, as poi
sons who. like Christ, have been killed hi
sill, verse 10.”
-4. Note. ‘-Buried together with him
by baptism—Christ’s baptism was not the
baptism ol repentance; lor he never cmii
mintd any sin; but, (as was obseived in
I Preliminary Essay 1, at tlie beginning.) he
I submitted to lie baptized, that is, to he bu
ried under the water by John, audio he
raised out of it again, as an emblem of his
future deaili and insurrection. In like man
ner die baptism of believers is emblemati
cal oi llieii own death, Initial, and resur
rection. .See Col. 2: 12. Note 1. Per
haps also ii is a commemoration ol Christ’s
baptism.”
i he reader w ill allow me here to remark,
dial 1 have In aid Piesbyleriaii ministers
:i sort as well as .Methodists, l 1 ‘I polar
lioPoaptnJc Ciiiisi by i miners mg nun. 1
will admit that 1 hare never heard one
lam;d for learning say il. Dr. Macknighl,
a> well as Dr George Campbell and .Mr.
Wesley on die Oih oi Romans, does uol
call it in question. Indeed die Dr. does
nul contradict any where, die view which
he lu re gives. The next place mentioned
by die Apostles is
I Colt. 15 i 291 h fits.
•'lose v. hat shall they do who are baptized
for die dead, if tin dead lise not ail ?”
(Jo tins ver-e, die Dr. makes the follow -
ing, w idi oilier observations: “Olliers un
derstand the w ind baptism here m ils ordi
nary meaning. Em baptism being an em
blematical representation oi tlie death and
huiial, am! n sum ciioir, not only ul Christ,
but id all mankind. (Rom. 0: 4.) ii was fit
ly in.de the rue of initiation into the Chris
tian cluucli; ami the person who received
11, thereby publicly pioiessing Ins belief ol
the resurrection ol Chris:, and ol the dead,
migni wiili the greatest propriety he said In
haw In c II hajiliz- and lor the dead, dial is, loi
Ins belief in the iesurrti-tiu:i of the the
dead.”
Here I imriuili that. Dr. Maekuight
ideally asst Us that the ordinary meaning of
the word i-, immersion D Idilnws Ihen
that ail min i meanings are extiaoidiiitirv —
not miliiiaiy. lie slates also, what all
Baptists ennliiid tor; “that baptism is an
’ mUeinuir ol i cpri seutution of the death,
burial, ood resurrection of ( heist, anil all
mank ml.’ The next place is
Galatians Ii; 27.
“l or as many ol you as have bet'll baptiz
ed into Christ, have put on Christ.” “In
ihe i xjiie.ssuin, -1 have put on Christ,’
liter • i- an allusion to the . y mhoheal me
vvlneii, ill rue iiisi age usiiaffy accompanied
baptism. Tlie person to lie baptized pul
oil ids old clothes before lie w ent into die
water, and put on new or clean raimein
u belt he tame out of it,” Ate. Ate.
Ephesians 4 : 5,
“One I.ord, one lailh, one bapl sill.”— 1
•\ e rdl serve cue I,otd ; have one and the
same objects ol faith; and have proles.-ed
that lailh by ON IX EOltM OF BAP
TISM.”
I huii; eu pliasizcd the last words of die
Doctor.
Kenri.aiANs 5 : 27.
•• I hat he might sanctify and cleanse it,
with die washing of water by the word.”
The Doctor’s translation is:—"That lie
might sanctify her, having cleansed her
with a hath oi water, and with the word.”
His comment on it is:— "'J’/tul he might
sanctify her, and lit her for becoming his
spouse, having cleansed her emblematical
ly by baptism, as brides rue wont to be
cleansed, with u bath of tealcr anil with
the word, bout the superstitions id Juda
ism and heathenism.”
Cocos ians 2: 12.
“Buried will? him in baptism, wherein ye
are also risen w ith linn, dirough the lailh
ol tire operation ol God, who hath raised
him from the dead.”
The Doctor has the follow ing remarks
O
on the above verse :
“Chr.st begun i is ministiy with recti v
,mg baptism from Joint, to show in an em
j blcmatieal manner that he was to lire, and
to tie mised again from tlte dead. And af
; let Ins insurrection, lie commanded his dis
■ ciplcs to iniiiate mankind into his religion
: la baptizing them, as lie himself had been
I baptized, to shew that although they snail
; die like him, through the malignity of sin ;
! yet as certa lily as he rose Irom the dead,
|in licms sliall be raised at the last day,
j with bodies las lull, and like unto liis glori
ous body. Wherefore liis disciples having
been baptized as he was, and for the veiy
same purpose, they are fitly said to be bu
ried w ith Christ iu baptism ; and in bap
tism lobe raised with him.”
CoLOSsiANs 3:1.
“II ye then he risen with Christ, seek those
things which are above.”
In ms iinroduetory ohset vatious on this
chapter, the Dr. says: “The Apostle iu
the 12th verse of tlie preceding chapter,
told the Colossiatts that they had been bu
ried with Christ in the water ot baptism as
dead peisoiisin token of their relinquishing
llieir lormer principles and practices; and
lira’, in baptism likewise they had been rais
ed out of lie water with Christ, as an un
hlem and pledge of tlte resurrection with
him to eternal life. If then ye beiiscn
witlt ('ltlist, in baptism, seek those tiling
w Inch are aiiov c.
. lIroRKWS 10: 22.
” having our hearts sprinkled ft out an
evil conscicrii'e, and onr bodies washed
with pure water.”
The Doctor observes on ibis expression
“belli:’ cleansed, not in the body by tlie
legal sprinklings, hut in the heart from tlte
terrors of an evil conscience, bv repentance,
and by tin; blood of Christ. Being wash
ed in body w ith the clean w ater of baptism,
FOR THE BAPTIST CONVENTIONS)!'’ THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
PEiXFIELD, GJp JULY 17, 1846;
whereby we professed our faith in Christ.”
1 Pkijiu 3: 21.
-Thu like figure wlieretuito even baptism
doth now save us, (not the putting away
ol lhe tilth of the flesh, but the answer of a
good conscience toward God.) by the te
surrectirm ol Jesus Christ.”
The w ater of baptism is here called the
aiilelypu to lire w ater of the Hood, because
i the flood was a type or emblem ot baptism
in ihe three following particulars ;
1. As by building lire aik, and by inter
ing into it, Noah showed a strong faith m
the piomise ol Cud, concerning his preset
valiun by tlie very water which was to de
stroy the antediluvians for their sins, so,
hy ftivic” puts.'lk-m to Iv-Jiurii-d in io, ua
ler ol baptism, we show a like latth to
Cod’s promise, that though we die a -J arc
buried, he will save us from death lire pun
ishment of sin, bv raising us from the Head
at the last day.
2. As the preserving of Noah alive, du
ring the nine months he was in die flood,
is an emblem of die preservation ol die
souls of believers w hile m the stale ol tin
dead, so the preserving of believers alive
w hile buried iu thu water of baptism, is a
preliguralioii ol die same event.
3. As the w aler of the deluge destroyed
the w irked antediluvians, hut preserved
Nouti, by hearing up die mi, in which lie
was shut up till the waters were assuaged,
and lie went oul of it alive again on the
earth, so baptism may be said to destroy
llio w ieked ai-il save the righteous, as it
prefigures boili these events; the death ol
the sinner il prefigures by ihe burying el
the baptized person in tlie water; and the
salvation of thu righteous by raising the
baptized person out ol the water to live a
new life.”
If we had not given the name at tlie head
of this arliele, would the reader have sup
posed il.nl the above commentary w as writ
ten bv one ol the most tal/mlcd expositors
in die I’reshy let inn church of Scotland ?
We are so accustomed in hear Irom the
small critics of the present day. tlie above
views denied and abused and ridiculed, that
we w ould suppose, if we did not know to
the contrary, that no truly learned and ,
sensible mail ever did hold and propagate
siieli sentiments. The prejudices ol eda--|
cation, oCeluriau lecling, and a w ant of
learning, carry many persons into tlie most;
glaring inconsistencies and übsuidities, in i
order to sustain a favorite creed. Dr.
Maekuight, on tlte moaning of lire wold
baplsim. seems lu have uiiilen as il lie
did hot know iiuv one laid views differing
from his own. If the above views were
to fall into tlie hands of any one who did
not know that Macknighl w rote them, lie
would not hesitate to afliim that a Baptist
must have been tlte writer of them.
.MONADEDIMHA.
For the Christian Index.
Tint ‘Tit!lire and Imporlaiicc of a Isitful life.
No. 4.
Faith not only enlarges the sphere
of our hopes, ol our affections, ami of our
daily usefulness ; lint, it enable us to go
forward iu the work ol lhe Dord, to ad
vance from otto degree of strength to anoth
er, and to prove “the exceeding greatness
of His power to ttsward who believe.”—
By “patient continuance in well doing”
and an humble trust in Providence, we re
ceive tlie highest blessings and privileges
of this life, and the strongest assurances of
liappimss in the next. A cairn depen
dence upon God, gives us a Imly I.oldness
iu approaching Him, bids us “( pen our
mouths wide” in Ills presence, an i r xp.eel
great tilings from him. “ The siiiugili ol
Israi 1 will not lie,” neiilrei is he “slack eon
eeriiing Ids promises.” Who that ha- i . ,
liie earnest and trustful supplications of Du
tliut, pleading with all the strength ol i
spirit, and all the humility ol a inuilal, ha;
not fell that there is a po ver ami i fli mey
granted to the devout exeicises off. ,to
which few have attained ? God icmmci
Ids fears, strengthened Ids ptirposis, te
hewed Ids energies, and lailliltdlv pres tv- .
him iu the midst ol dangers. Wn i o m
look back upon his own obscure life, .i.T
recount Ids blessings, without say ing, !u.
little have l trusted, and yet how wood; i
fully have 1 been upheld? How gnu,
have 1 sinned, and displeased God In doubt,
and despondency*, anil yet lew patient,
how kind has he been tome? While we
frighten and disquiet ourselves. He calms
our fears, turns our teslless tlrought;'. into
profitable channels, and consoles, and pre
serves us when our sms art ready to de
stroy us.
Again, faith purifies out motives, am)
show s us the vanity of every degree of hu
man trust, null seif-suflieieitey . God will
he honored by the instrumentalities lie e.on
desceiuls to employ, and, spurning all our
religious pride and parade, will leach as
that v.-c are nothing in His tight, and that
lie can work gloiiously and poweiiully in
the hearts of tin u, without us, Moses said,
must e f-Aeli om water out ol this ro, k ;
God was displeased with him, ami dishon
ored in the sighi if the people, and Mo.sis
! afn i |r ts irrnmg miracles forty years, iiij(d
lln ih wd.liit while die trustful, s-ingas
l/ ‘antd Joshua took his place, and led the
Kjieuple into tlte fruitful am! extensive land
f” Canaan. Onr molivi-s must he pure,
TU’d the glot y ol the cross of Christ (must
jl c more afractlve, and satisfying to us, than
J; 11 the splendor and honor of this world.
Bui, again, faith gives us boldness to
j fvl hmmiiiiiy in all its degrees dis
..ice am. misery; to attempt to comfort,
nd re.ieve ; to meet repulse without il)s
'miragement, and success without ’pride ;
e hrve.-t ihe present litnif with saeredness
nd interest, by making it useful, and to (ill
or futon with the light and wari.mli which
\t,is id mmwwr&mMWfr
Agam, lailh lifts the heliwer above th</'“
; erpii xirg anxietii s, and petty cares, \v lf u
enslave unbelieving, fares brigk/'ii
and poiisli ids character. Mid make it sttb
seiviunt to tlte higher and more important
duties of life. DEDTA.
For the Christian Index.
Estrods from o MS. Volume of “One
Hundred Maxims, Illustrated in Minia
taie Sketches and assays.”
iMaxim XI.— * Kttxit Expcciatiniis arc geiirr
ally ‘Disuppoutcd.”
Oitl A.— advised his son. Turn, lo etitb
his desires about the future: said he, “it
i wrtmg ns well as dangerous for a young
man to expect more happiness or good luck
I urea Iter than lie now enjoys: future ih eds
of renown or stations of honor should not
< image Iris thoughts, for they will wry ma-
Fii-diy inlet lore with pi esent business and
D: it> ;■ disappointment hereafter. The
world's a curious tiling, rom.aml so you'll
laid heiore you become as old as I am.—
Just take it easy, hoy. ami Ire smisfied with
it as it comes, then it can’t woist yon verv
badly, lie moderate in your desites, ex
peel no big things, and then if they should
happen l to fall to your lot, which is not of
ivn the ease, you’ll he the heller able lo rel
ish them and to benefit yourself and others
by a proper use of them. I tell you, Tom,
lew njeii live in palaces, and those lew me
gjmerjly less happy than the humble eot
lAeer* around them.”
| lvTrT"iiJf.ixajP r
| ) liseomsea^E ; ’' n, '.' s lllal '“
lie tuitieipalinu. Not one can
r jAfiiil who has not some favorite scheme
i his mind, by w'bielr he expects to arrive
I some slaliiin of liottor, or usefulness, or
vestlllt; and every day’s uhseivalion and
xpeiience show that disappointment ami
nhappiness vre the almost univeisal eou
(jitenees. The good old plan ol ‘taking
,ie world easy as it comes,’ as old A. —
;It isod his son Tom, is the best, tho only
nrtoin method ot insuring moderate desites,
uni of preventing disappointment and trou
de. It is far ire Iter lo lie a happy poor
join, than lo be a miserable rich one, and
t: is best of all to he satisfied with ihe pre
bent station, and not Del the soul ahum ris
ing liiglur. Hear die experience of one :
•‘When, young, life’s journey I began,
The glittering prospect charmed my [eyes ;
I saw along the extended plain,
(Joy abet joy successive rise:
But soon I lon ml ‘iwas all a dream,
And learned the fond puisuil to slum,
In re lew can reach tlie purposed aim,
And ‘.housands daily are undone.”
T. M. JS.
For the Christian Imlix.
Jiiimlcriul Instruction-
When W ill. Carey and Mr. Morns were
; uiig luiinsiers, they’ used lo visit the
i ,u Robert Hail regularly for the purpose
|ot iiouig instructed. On these occasions
‘■ iy Milled to him the outlines ol the :er
’ “ ~s which they had preached, and the
old gentleman criticised freely. Would it
’ , oi be well if other uiiinslcis would follow
: 1 r example ol these worthy men? By
; i ll means yoimg inini-lt'rs might be sai ed
t.oiit many mistihq* ami errors, I have
, ■ n liiotiglil that ministers might assist
; ‘ all olltci m llieir studies and labors tum.ii
j i,tore titan they do. When sew ral reside
it the same region, they might ImM stair u
i mieliugs in lie’ll to trie advantage ol ail par
ties. The business should lie to lerite old
leseioiis, lo choose new ones, to give hints
of advice. Ate. Thus llieir minds might
In- trained to oiderl v tlmikiii.’, an I impro
per habits or notions might iiu eonei.ltd
before confirmed. To avoid mipiopi is m. s
one of the number should be llieii modera
tor ; nr il ihere should he a wise old broth
er among them, he should he recognized
as the moderaior and teacher. Such meet
ings would not he altogether uni ku the au
eic-ni schools of the prophets.
DISCIPLE.
For the Christian Index.
TEMPERANCE -To- 3.
It is said of Dr. Johnson, “ilia! this c, le
bratc-d individual, in 17l!7, abstained entire-
ly from fermented liqumi—a piaetiee to
which lie rigidly conformed for niv’ty years
together, at different periods of his fife.”
Again, tlie doctor himself says, “By ab
stinence fiom wine mu! supp -s, l obtained
sudden and great relief; arid had freedom
of mind resumed tome, which I have want
ed for all this year, without being able to
find any mean- of obtaining it.”
“It often happened,” says the biographer
of the great Luther, “that for several days
and nights lie locked himsell up in iiis
study, and took no other imuiishnr tit than
bread and writer, that he might tho-more
ttg'.ff j -:'!:pl''‘ll“ *.’e’ f’,’- - /if'Ssts.A’ ’^•t t
“Demosthenes, the great orator of Greece,
tisi and no other drink than vvalet.”
“Sir Isaac Newton, when cmnposino his
celebrated treatise upon optics, confined
himself to bread and water.” By his ah
slineitce he attained the age of eighty-five.
“John Locke, 100, died in tlie seventv
third yeat ofhisage; his common drink
was water.”
Bayle died at sixty-five; his drink was
water.
“Euler, tlte famous mathematician, who
attained ihe advanced age <4 seventy -s x
years, was strictly temperate.”
La Place was temperate to abstemious
ness ; he lived to he sevcutv-cight.
Reflections: If we would have onr chil
dren imitate these worthies, if we would
have the succeeding generation w ise, use
ful and longlived, let us preach Femper
ance.
If l’hilosophets, Mathematicians, Ora
tors, dte., felt under obligation to abstain
from tlie use of strong drink merely to ad
vance their individual pursuits and promote
their own physical health, ought not en
lightened chiistiaits of tins day to feel under
a hundred fold greater obligation to advance
the Temperance cause, as one of the grand
preparatory measures for the pievaletice of
Divine Truth. PAULDING. i
For the Christian Index.
Dtutoii Todtl-
Prayer vs. lilac Fill.
A lady >/! lire jJeaeon's acquaintance was
aiHieted with occasional seasons of w hat is
commonly culled “lowness oj spirits.”
On these occasions, it was quite common
for her to attribute her feelings to atleia ige
nient oi tlie liver. A lit! heaving a sigh and
exclaiming, ” Well, I think my liver must j
be nul ofordei.” The old mail had more i
than once iiiliuiulid his suspicions that ill
was a spiritual rather than a ph\steal dis
otder; still she persisted iu her views.
At length, one day, when Iter liver, a usu
al, was “sadly th ranged,” the Deacon!
proposed a remedy that lie said he had no j
doubt would do much more good than her
usual dose ol “ blue piit.”
“Go, now,” says he, “and icad over
tite lourteetiih chapter ol lit. John, and then
pray rann stly for a heller spirit, especially
for alt humble flame of mind; and if you
are not better, then vail me ‘ no (lector,’
and welcome.”
Oil she went, lor she hud a good deal of
confidence in the Deacon. In about half
an hour, site came hack, with an agreeable
smile, asserting, most unhesitatingly, that
“ Prayer and the fourteenth du.pt er of Cl.
John wits a fur better rem d'/ than blue
pills.”
1 believe tlte remedy is likely lo become
popular ; for it was but the day alter that 1
heard an intimate acquaintance of that ludv
say that she hud h.eti trying it with mark
ed success. E. D.
For Ihe Christian Index.
LltxtNOtoN, G.i., July 4th, 1810
Mr. linker. —l have been requested to
publish lliiough the columns of your vultra
hie paper, an account of the Examination
and Exhibition ol lhe students of Walnut
Grove Academy, which is now under su
pervision ofMr. James D. Randle.
The Examination ami Exhibition con
jointly occupied two (lavs, the 1-t and 2nd
lusts.; the lowerelassesTivingexamined on
tlie first, and the higher classes on the la>t
day.
I'ii si, the lower classes. —lt is a vity
picvaU tit fault in almost ail common schools,
to tax the memory ol children at the ex
panse oi disregarding llieir understanding ;
hut here- il is not so. The small: si oi those
who were examined, seemed to understand
tlie main objuvt ol llieir studies, knew w hat
application to make of them, ami from a
strict examination proved to all who were
capable of judging, that their studies had
been familiarly illustrated to them and
brought within jlte limits ol llieir youthful
coinptehi n-ion ; llieir own little ideas wen*
t night lo shoot insteal of clogging llieii
minds with that which was to them mete
jargon. I can ussuio you ilia’ the small
children u-’quitted themselves with honor,
P> , ’’.r,isiii:R—liENJ. J3RANTLY.
and proved that they lutd been ptoperly
taught, which redounds no little to the pto
fessional credit of llieir worthy teacher.
Second, ike higher classes.—No one
need ciueitain any fears for those who con
stitute the fiist classes of this institution.—
They me not taught text btjpks only, and
their use and application, but they are
taught gentility, politeness and elegance of
behaviour. Their deportment towards
their superiors in age or literary acquire
ment is worthy of admiration, and demands
in return, the respect of al! lor them. To
wards each other, all formal restraint is
dircy.'u cc’.Jc jji.ilne, tjrey i,qe-'U to
be as one lamily of children, all hiving thtrir”
preceptor, who cherishes fo*lheni almost
paternal afit'Clion; and he it said lo tho
honor of the higher classes, no students
could .have been much better prepated fora
thorough examination than they were.
The performance of the young ladies
who art* members ol the musical depart
ment of this institution, must have excelled
by far the most perfect point of perfection,
to which tite most anxious parents could
have wished them to arrive. Miss Helen
Richards has tho charge of this department.
The Exhibition was good. All acted
theit parts of the different plays w ell; and
the w hole was well conducted.
Several ad dresses were deflected by
young gentlemen who were not members
of the institution, to wit; Mr. Bell—subject,
“Temperance”—Mr. Edwin Randle—
subject, “The influence ol Education”—
Mr. William Strong—subject, “Education”
—also an address on “i he unity Govern
ment” was delivered by him who now
begs leave to subscribe llimself
Very’ respectfully,
Joseph Hunky Dumpkin,jtiii’r.
('lose Communion in the Presbyterian Church.
A circumstance ocilined during the ses
sion ul lire iwo Assemblies us the Presby
terian church ul Philadelphia, lasi week,
which must I’orevt-i silence iho cavils of
tiiai church against whai they are pleased
to term ihc ‘.7u.se communion’ principles
us die IJupiisls. ihe “I\cvv Sellout 1 As*
is uibly at an early Mage ul their seas tan
p .'seu a t.i ..;1111.u.i v ,• ;
| hiellneii ul the “Old Sellout” in the cele
bration id the Lord’s Supper. The vote of
the “Mew School” was sent to the Old
School Assembly’ in a kind and courteous
manner, and, under the lull expectation
that it would he cheerfully responded to.
When the invitation was read, the Rev.
Hubert J. 15 reck in ridge took a decided
stand in opposition, and made a long and
laboied argument in opposition to the pro
priety ul acceding to it. He was followed
by I Jr. ALT ai land, Wilson and others on
ike same side. Rev. Di. Young, and Rev
Air. IJachus urged the expediency and the
Christian propriety of meeting their breth
ren at the tabic ul their common Lord.—-
Alter a long discussion, w hicli occupied a
portion ul iliree days i .e lolluwing Minute
was reported and adopted as a final dispo
sition ui the “vexed ijutsiion.”
” The Committee on Devotional Exer
cises having repotted to this General As
sembly a ciiiiiiiiiiiiicatioii 1 1out a similar
cuiniliiuee nl the General Assembly in ses
sion at the First i’reshy lerian church, rep
resenting dial the said Assembly has author
ized its committee to confer with the tout
mittcc ul l!iis Assembly in relation to a
joint celebration of the Lord's Supper bv
the two bodies, it was ordered, that the
committee rcspectlullv acknowledge and
reeipiucalu the courtesy ol me cuinuiunica
lion, and say in reply, that while this As
sembly recognize the above meintioned
holly as a blanch ol the church ol out com
mon Lord, and lor ibis icasoii would, as
individuals, under appropriate circumstan
ces, unite with our brethren in the celebra
tiun ul ditine ordinances yet, as this As
sembly has never in its corporate and ofli
eiui capacity united w ith any inner eeclesi*
j ttsiical body in celebrating the Lord's Slip
| per, n judges it inexpedient to institute a
j new mage at tiiis time.”
The “New School” is acknowledged by
I heir hrelhreu ol tlio “Oiil’’ as “a branch of
the Chinch of our common Loiil,” yet
they refuse to sit id the table of their com
mon Lord wi.lt them. Let the cavils
against “close communion” llaptists cense.
Christian Secretary.
Tnc sensible fool —Jl curious .I hirxdolt .
Alplionso, king of Naples, had in his court
a loot who used to w rite down in a book
n l the folii sol the great men in his time
that wen; at court. The king having a
Moor in Ins huiiteholtl, sent him to the
Levant in buy horses, with leu thousand
ducats. Tins the Idol marked in his book
as a pttie piece ol folly. Koine time after,
the king called for the book, and fount! at
last his ow n name, with the story of the
ten thousand ducats. The king, being
somewhat moved, asked the reason why
Ins mine was there. ML cause,’ says the
jester, ‘you have committed a piece of folly
to give your immey to one you are never
like to see again.’ ‘Hut if lie does come
hick again,’ says the kino, land bring* me
the horses, wiiat foily is that ill one I’—-
•Why, if ever ho does comeback again,’
replied the fool, ‘l'll Hot cut your name,
an:/put in his.’
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